Sash-fastener



.UNITED vSTATES PATENT OEEIOE.

NAPOLEON BONAPAETE EENDY, OE cALvEsT'ON, TEXAS.

sAsH-FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 294,435, dated. March 4, 1884,

Application filed June 25, 1883. (No model.) V Y To all whom it may concern Beit known that I, NAPOLEON BONAPARTE BENDY, a citizen of the Unites States, residing at Galveston, in the county of Galveston and State of Texas, have4 invented a new and useful Improvement in Window-Sash Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, with the accompanying drawings.

The obj ect of my invention is to furnish a device by which window-sashes, when let down, are always fast or secure without vhaving to be fastened or secured by hand, and when raised up catch on the stop or rest and securely hold the sash up without the trouble of fastening or securing by hand. These ends are attained by means of a piece of metal or other suitable substance, so formed and balanced and attached to the window-sash by a screw, and so placed on the sash that it will. lie against the window-casing, which holds the sash in position, and immediately under another piece of metal or other suitable sub-- stance, so formed and attached to -the window casing Or frame that in attempting to raise the sash the piece on the sash will come in contact with the piece on the frame orv casing and form a double catch, and therebyprevent the sash being raised; and when the sash is raised .up the piece of metal on the sash will catch on the piece on the casing or frame and hold the sash securely in position, as will be seen in the drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a windowsash in the frame, with my fastener attached when the sash is down 5 Fig. 2, a front View of the fastenerwhen in contact with the stop, Fig. 3, aview of the same when the sash ,is raised; Fig. 4, a view of the same when raising or lowering the sash.

In the drawings, A is the fastener attached to the sash.v B is the-stop attached to the window frame or casing, one above'and one below. The upper one is usedk as a rest to hold the sash in position when raised, and the lower one when in contact with the'fastener to form the double catch to prevent the sash from being raised. The stop B is rmly attached to the window casing or frame so as to hold it in the same position, while the fastener A is attached to the sash so that it will turn on the screw.

In order to raise the sash when down, the fastener A is turned bottom upward, and resting against the stop B, when the fastener will pass the stop in raising the sash; and in order to lower the sash after being raised and rested on the upper stop, the sash is slightly raised, so as to release the fastener from the stop and then turn the fastener bottom upward, so that it will rest against the window casing or frame, when the fastener will pass the stop and the sash will go down. The fasteners are to be made of any desired size and of any metals or composition .or other substances capable of being used for the purpose of afastener. They are intended to be used on windows, doors, elevators, and in all other places where applicable.

Having fully described my invention, what I desire to claim, and secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination, with a window frame and sash, of a fastener consisting of stops secured to the frame and .formed with beveled ends and a shoulder, as shown, and a button, A, pivotally secured to the sash and recessed -to form a triangular projection, and a finger- NAPOLEON BONAPARTE BENDY.

Witnesses:

H. P. ANGELL, HUGO BEOZIG. 

